going with the flow?

That is a hollow apology.  You were more than willing to start posting again to stir things up but then when apologies start being said and everyone tells you to drop the whole thing, THEN you apologize? 

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Bloody Monday--That is what CNN is calling it with 76000 people being laid off.  Well, I guess I just like to go against the flow but I gave my 2 week notice to QUIT my job today.  I have worked for Spheris for the last 9 years and finally had enough of the Out of Work situations. I made 7,000 dollars less last year than in 2007.  This year looks even worse.  There are worse things than being laid off, like taking a 50% pay cut.....which is what running out of work mid-shift does to you.

This company has outsourced their work to India and they may try to tell you that it is not going to cut your work but it isn't Rocket Science.  When the only good week you have in 6 months is the week of Ramadan when they are on their HOLIDAY-------somethings up.  Today was the India MTs day back and again by midshift I got the No JObs available message so I submitted my resignation.

I have a parttime job with a company that hires only US MTs and I called them first to see if I could go fulltime and I got a YES< YES<YES from them!  There is plenty of work out there for good MTs and Editors so I don't think any of us should take a backseat to India!  I am going where I am appreciated.  In my resignation I told them I was going with a company that values my experience and is willing to compensate me for it!!!!!!!  Spheris has several accounts in jeopardy and if they continue to go with the $200 a week MTs........well, we will see!!!  Hang in there all, what we do is IMPORTANT to the Health Field and they will come back to appreciate us in time........I do believe this

I was just wondering how everyone was doing with respect to the amount of work you are getting.  Is it slow?  Are you inundated with a lot of reports?

I have never seen it this slow where I work.  I am worried, unhappy, scared, etc.  I called my MTSO and asked and was rudely told that it's because of the holiday and that I should know better.  I did not start working there yesterday.  I have been with this company as an IC since 2006, and even during the previous major holidays such as Xmas and Thanksgiving, it was never this bad.  I was lucky to have gotten in 1000 lines this entire week!  What's more is that The Holiday which was Memorial Day just passed; and Memorial Day is NOT a major holiday! 

I am posting to just get a feel of what others might be experiencing.

I do take the time to correct my reports and research terms, physicans' names and addresses, correct facility names, etc.  That is exactly WHY I take offense at your post.  It is getting harder and harder to maintain quality while still being able to do this job at 99% accuracy along with all the additional nonpaid responsibilities some of these MTSOs require without having additional stress added to it with punitive compensation policies. 

I'm most definitely NOT advocating that MTs should hurry through their work, I'm taking the side of the MTs that have enough stress as it is without having more garbage piled on top of our backs.  I'm appalled at the fact that you have such a high and mighty attitude against your fellow workers at the same time bragging about your situation, yet admitting that you're scared you may end up in the same situation.  Hey...at least your honest about not having qualms sticking the knife in your colleagues' backs.  Like you say...it would be stoopid for you to give up the name of where you work to help others out because then you would end up in the same boat.  Things are a lot different than they were in the 70s and 80s, but your attitude shows that you could care less about what your colleagues are going through NOW because you're done with it and set to retire.

Tired of hopping around and trying to find a place with enough work to keep everyone busy and not overhire for future use   So just wanting to check out work flow, and was also wondering basic range for VR. 

Great lady to work for. 

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 Just a few hours a week?

work for everybody. You might say you want ONLY XX minutes a day but what happens if a doc decides to get caught on his backlog? Or another MT wants off for the day because her daughter has a fever? Or another MT just has to take off a few hours to run her dad to the doctor's office? And then another account realizes it's almost the end of the month and they need to get all their reports in? Or if there is a chlorine spill at the edge of town and the ER account gets swamped? It is impossible as an MTSO to keep the work at an even keel. If you hire people just for overflow, then some days it's too slow. So your overflow person quits. Or it gets slow because it's February and everyone is avoiding deductibles and your MT's are b****ing about not enough work. Then August hits and work comp pours in along with weekend warriors, then the MT's are screaming that they are overloaded. There has to be a certain amount of flexibility in the MT's end or it just won't work. MT work is like LIFE, it comes at you in waves.